Page 74 of My Omega's Baby
My face warmed. I had been eating a lot of sweets and craving salt lately. I was kind of embarrassed, because I’d never been someone who liked junk food. But now I couldn’t seem to get enough of it.
Wyatt put his arm around my shoulders. “What do we do first?” He peered past her. “Is there any way Blade could get a checkup?”
“Of course.” She moved back into the building and we followed. “We always do an examination as soon as the omegas arrive.”
“Good.” Wyatt sounded relieved.
I was a little more apprehensive. How exactly did they check on the baby, since I was a man? I followed her into a bright examination room off the main lobby.
She turned to Wyatt. “You can stay with him if you want. I know this is really stressful for both of you.”
“I’d like that.” He nodded.
She touched my arm. “Okay, take everything off but your underwear, and put on the blue smock. You’ll want it to open in the front.” She opened some drawers and started laying out items: a stethoscope, two syringes, and a tube of some type of lube. Then she straightened. “Dr. Peters will be right in.”
After she was gone, I did as she said, and then I sat on the paper-covered exam table. Wyatt took a seat in the corner. He smiled reassuringly at me. “So far so good.”
I nodded. “Yeah. I was expecting everyone to be more uptight.”
“Me too.”
“I know I need an examination, but man, I could use a nap.” I sighed and hung my head.
His lips twitched. “I know. You’re eyes are at half-mast.”
“All I want to do is eat and sleep. That can’t be healthy.”
“It must be what the baby needs.”
The door opened and an older man with a neatly trimmed gray beard entered the room. He smiled and shook our hands. “I’m Dr. Peters.” He scribbled something on his clipboard. “I’m glad you two finally made it.”
“Of course.” Wyatt leaned back in his chair. “We’d have come sooner, but we had work obligations.”
“Well, you’re here now, and that’s all that matters.”
“I guess.” My stomach rolled with nerves. “How exactly does this work?” I gave the tray with the syringes a nervous glance. “You know… with me being a man and all.”
He followed my gaze, and he chuckled. “One of those is a vitamin B shot, and the other is so I can draw some blood. Don’t worry, the exam is mostly painless. The most discomfort you’ll feel is that the gel is kind of cold on your stomach, and the needle might prick a little when I draw your blood.”
Relief washed through me. “Okay. Good.”
“Go ahead and lie down.” He pulled on a pair of rubber gloves. Once I was flat, he moved closer and started pressing very gently on my abdomen. “Morning sickness almost gone?”
I nodded. “Yep. I get a few twinges every now and then, but nothing like in the beginning.”
He laughed. “Yeah, it’s pretty awful at first.” He continued to press on me. “Everything feels normal.” He stepped back and went to the cart in the corner that had a machine on it. He rolled it closer, and then he squeezed a big blob of gel on the probe. “This is completely safe for the baby. Don’t worry.”
I studied the contraption. “If you say so.”
He smiled. “It seems intimidating, I know.” He flicked some switches on the device.
“This works on a man too?” Wyatt sounded skeptical.
“Of course.” He took in my dubious expression. “You don’t have to be a female to have an ultrasound. The way this works is the machine transmits a high-frequency sound into your body, and it hits the boundaries between things like soft tissue and fluids, or soft tissue and bone.”
I wrinkled my brow, and he laughed.
“The sound waves are then reflected back to the probe, and the machine calculates everything. To make a long story short: the sound waves are used to create a two-dimensional image of the fetus.”
